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About The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1909)
I The News-Herald PLATTSMOUTH, NIBRASKA. Entmd it the ixutuffir at Plattrmouth. Can County, Nebraska, u avcond-claiia mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COl'NTY A. L. TIDlJ Editor. R. O. WAITERS Manager. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Om Tar hi Adyanc. , is Mootha .11.50 . .75 lELtrrroNcs riattfimouth No. 85 Nebraska No. 85 I! JOURNALISM. "Every owner, editor, or re- orter of a conseienciously and ably conducted newspaper or ! ) periodical is an asset of real value to the whole community. It I would oe difficult to overestimate S. I the amount of good which can be x done by the men responsible for S. X such a nublication resnonsible I for its rilitniinl rnliimnn ri'innn- j! X sible for its news columns, re- I . . sponsible for its general policy. . . We have many newspapers and periodicals big and little, of this kind. But we also have many that are not of this kind." Theodore Roosevelt. The Journal says its fight for an interurban railroad is "going to bear fruit." Our contemporary's figure of speech is unfortunate: Figs are not gathered from thistles. TRUSTEES FOR HUMANITY. Narrowness of interpertation of the duty of leaders of the people are us ually found in the profession of the ministry, of the law, of teaching, or of journalism. The ministry is interpret ing its work less as a denominational duty or as an ecclesiastical service, and ia coming to interpret it more as em bodying a great human opportunity for nerving all men. The lawyer considers profession less as a means for winning the cause of his client than as a method ior promoting justice. The teacher, of all men, is most remote from all parti san privileges or duties. He seeks to serve the community through the train ing of the child. The journalist en deavors to interpret occurrence and phenomenon in such ways as to pro-' mote the human weal. Men of high position and of large op portunity are, with each passing decade and year, thinking of themselves as be ing put in trust with the highest inter ests of humanity; they are becoming genuine shepherds of the people. INSURANCE LOBBY CONTROLS HOUSE. What a hard-working and persistent lobby can accomplish was demonstrat ed in the house of representatives to day, when Nettleton's bill to make notes given for first insurance pre miums non-negotiable until the policy has been delivered came up on third reading. The vote on this measure, II. R. No. 56, was 44 to 43. Its introducer and friends did not move for a call of the house, as they knew most of the absent members were against the bill. All efforts of the insurance lobby have been bent on defeating this bill. "Col." Bates joins hands with the 111 A I ioudv. ana me insurance grauer. Representatives of insurance com panies have spent many hours of time working with members upon the floor I in direct violation of tho house rules. One of them was present on the floor while the vote was being taken, al though the rules prescribe that nobody but the legislators themselves shall be admitted within the railing while bills I are on third reading. ! The roll on II. R. No. 5G resulted thus: Ayes-Allen, Baker, Barclay, Bar rett, Boelts, Bolts, Bowman, Bygland, Carr, Case, Dolezal, Eastman, Fannon, Gerdes, Greig, Griffin, Hector, Henry, Holmes, Howard, Humphrey, Johnson of Burt, Kotouc, Krans, Marlatt, Mc- Vicker. Nettleton, Noyes, O'Connell, Roberts, Saberson, Smith, Snyder, Stoecker, Swam, Talcott, Taylor of York, Taylor of Hitchcock, Taylor of Custer, Weems, West, Wilson, Young -44. Nays - Armstrong, Bates, Begole, Black, Blystone, Brown of Sherman, Brown of Lancaster, Bushee, Butt, Chase, Clark, Connolly, Cooperrider, Dostal, Ellis, Evans, Fogarty, Grue ber, Hadsell, Harrington, Heffernar, Hospodsky, Johnson of Adams, Kel ley, Killen, Kuhl, Lawrence, Leidigh, Lux, Miller, Moore, Murphy, Pickens, Raines, Raper, Ritchie, Schoettger, Scheele, Shoemaker, Skeen, Stedman, Thiessen, Thomas, Worthing, Mr. Speaker-45. j. I WILL NOT FORGET. f This pause before the city cam- j paign begins is or ought to be the time for all good citizens to make Y J good resolutions. Such as: 1 :r. 1 WILL NOT FORGET i That the welfare of my home city is above party and the group of politicians who reap all, or nearly all, the profits of victory. rr I WILL NOT FORGET That my first duty is good citi zenship, and that this duty should f take precedent over party affilia tion. I WILL NOT FORGET That good clean business govern ment is the first essential to the welfare of any city. - rr. I WILL NOT FORGET , To exercise my own intelligence merely for party's sake. rr I WILL NOT FORGET That the welfare of the whole of every boodle scandal is that it had to be done in that way or not at all. It is called practical business. But really it is not practical. A penalty inevitably follows. No amount of gain can compensate the loss in character or proper pride. Lawbreak ing, even from what is generally called necessity, is still lawbreaking-the transgression of those lines of duty laid down by the duly authorized agencies of the Government. Our highest form of citizenship, therefore, is that practiced by the man who sticks to the law because he recognizes in it moral obligation, be cause he bows to it from his own wishes and judgement. For such a one there is satisfaction far greater than wealth or power secured by reprehen sible means. "Even Fortune herself, which is said to have the greatest power, gives way to him: as the wise poet has said, 'A man's fortune has its form given to it by his habit,'" de clared Cicero. city depends proportionately on ' 0cr;i my individual voie. jf Killing time is crippling character. A LITTLE Cupid is to blame for some marriages, and a little cupidity for The quality which you put into your work will determine the quality of your life. The habit of insisting upon the best of which you are capable, of always demanding of yourself the high est, never accepting the lowest or second best, no matter how small you remuneratior, will make all the differ ence to you between failure and suc cess. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly chnnge; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius. FURNITVR pfa Solid Oak Tables in large variety, and everything else in the furniture line can be found here. Come in any time, whether you intend making an immediate pur chase or not. It's well though to know what you're planning to get a week or month from now. WHAT TWO AND ONE-HALF ACRES CAN GROW. In the current issue of Success Maga zine Mr. Ernest Poole, thus describes a two and one-half acre market garden in Paris. He says: A bare list of all the produce that came in one year from this small plot would take at least two pages. I can give here only the principal items. Over 20,000 pounds of carrots; over 20,000 pounds of onions, rad ishs, and other vegetables sold by weight; 6,000 heads of cabbage; 3,000 heads of cauliflower; 5,000 baskets of tomatoes; 5,000 dozen of fruit; 145,000 heads of salad. A total of over two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of vegetables. And more than half this amount was marketed months in advance of the season, in the winter and early spring! A miracle indeed the Gardens of the Hesperides brought up todate for the instance which I have given isno exceptional case. In the reports I have read, and in my own excur sions about Paris, I have found scores of gardens where the same astounding results are attained. Here is a splendid lesson to be learn ed. Look about our cities, and observe these vacant lots oi namended by hideous bill boards, or covered with a rank growth of weeks and brush. Are we pursuing correct economic principles? A little thought, a little energy, and a little capital properly applied might make much of these vacant lots. A few acres properly cultivated would produce a comfortable income. It is a mistake to suppose that every man who succeeds i.i keeping out of jail is going to get into Heaven. Some men are so sociable that by the time they get to the end of a railroad trip they know the engineer well enough to borrow a chew of tobacco from him. Eo,UAL opportunity for all is the pol icy of this paper. We are opposed to filling the pockets of the few at the expense of the many. We shall pursue this policy fearlessly until We find a better. We are opposed to the granting of any franchise over the public streets and public roads to any half dozen men for interurban railway purposes or for any other purpose regardless of who the men may be, or what they may promise. OBSERVE LAW ASA CIVIC DUTY. It has been said that every man is a free trader after he gets his own in terests protected. In the same way every man is a good citizen-in all the laws that do not conflict with his plans or his comfort. One of the Justices of the Supreme Court has recently pleaded for a larger observance of law from the pleasure of performing a civic duty and not from the sense of mere compulsion. It is not a now thought. It has been emphasized by the great men of all age?. Cicero, in a noble passage, The greatest force for progress, for individual or general progress, is intel ligent criticism -the pointing out of what can and what should be done The editor of this paper may make mistakes, but whatever mistakes are made will be errors of judgment, and not errors of purpose. "To err is human, to for give is divine." What we all need, individually and collectively, is helpful criticism. And any kind of criticism is better than the wholesale praise that lures to the bot tomless bogs of self-complacence. The editor of the News-Herald has no favors to ask and no favors togrant, as favors. He believes in a good clean, capable and businesslike administration of the city's affairs. Give -this city a good clean, capable and courageous list of candidates on the citizens ticket, and the editor of this paper will give them loyal support. He will support demo crats and republicans alike on a citizens ticket. Those who should ba nominated and elected on a citizens ticket should be free from partisan obligations. We are for any man for any city office who is big enough to lay a ii'.e his partisan ship for the welfare of this city. WEAKNESSES OF STRONG MEN. Those who are seeking through r.tudy pictured the upright man, "who does j of superior men to make themselves at Carpets Look carefully through our carefully selected stock of Car pets, Rugs, Tapestries, etc., be fore making any selection, for in so doing you will reap the bene fit of your wisdom in a wider range of choice than ordinary, in certainty of merit of the goods and figures, which will effect you a genuine raving in cash outl.iy. Agents for the Steams -t Foster Mattress. M. HILD, PROP. The big furniture and undertaking establishment on South Sixth Street. Licensed Embalmcrs: Miciiakl Hii.i). John P. Sattlcu. not submit to the laws from fear, but pays obedience and respect to them be cause he considers that this is the most proper course.1' It is undeniable that one of the greatest dangers of the times is the laxity of popular sentiment in regard to observance of the law. But it might n jt be right to argue from this that the individual is on the down grade. Law has grown weaker from the same reason that familiarity breeds contempt. least less inferior are often puzzled and baffled by the discovery of characteiu tics that teem absolutely incompatible with greatness. There is hardly a great man whose rife is at all accu rately known in whom there was not a weakness that would destroy an ordi narysometimes mental weakness, as utter lack of judgement; sometimes moral weakness; again, physical weak ness. But is there on record a single case of a great man who had not through 1 here are too many laws. Congress, i his character a certain toughness of the State Legislatures and the other fiber which made him free from the ' liw factories turn out each year more ' common weaknesses of whining and j new statutes than tlie best-intentiored ! rushing about for refuge at the first i citizen can keep track of. The manu-' black lift of adversity? Is not that j facturer, the merchant, the transporta- fundamental sense of insecurity, of in- j I tion man meets petty regulations at j ability to stand alone, the great enemy ! every turn of his efforts to accomplish j that drives some to tho false courage i j result. In a moment of discourage- of drink, others to slink and crawl! J ment or of anger even the best some-: along the byways of indirection and j times lays aside hi.s principles and crime, many, many others to resign the yields to graft or hrci.ir.es an open vio- guidance of their djit'niis to some! tutor in order to carry oat a Mmple j master or masters with h;. idly an effort I business project. Tho universal excuse to think or do for themselves? The Homo PspBP khhbvli- i terest the home news. Its every issue will prove a welcome visitor to every member of the family. It should bead your list of newspaper and periodical subscriptions. t ? Y f ? ? ? Y t Property in Plattsmouth For Sale 2 corner lots on north 7th street. Residence at corner of 6th and Courtiand streets. Residence at corner of 7th and Dey street. Residence at corner of 5th and Locust sts. Residence at corner of 4th Rnd Granite sts. Residence on Granite between 3rd & 4th. 4 lots between 5th and 0th on Walnut st. Two houses and about 1 1-2 acres near Columbian scoot. 13 acres about 1 mile south of C. B. & Q. bridge. North and South Dakota farm lands for sale. J. E. BARWICK Office two doors north of Postoffice. Pianos for Particular People f ? ? ? ? ? ? f T t t When you meet a person who is very particular in musical matters it is safe to con clude that that person owns one of our pianos. The undoubted preeminence of our Pianos accounts for their adoption by the best judges of music everywhere. The ac tion of our Pianos is up to the standard. Strike a note on one of our pianos a number of times and you will get a response for every note you strike. Nine out of ten pianos will simply result in a succession of blurred tones. We do expert tuning and repairing. Plattsmouth Music Company J. A. BECKER, MANAGER v f I Muslin Underwear! t V f ? ? ? ? ? V We are showing a fine line of med ium priced Underwear. CORSET COVERS Made of fine muslin, double stitched, taped seams, trimmed with Val Lace and wide In sertions, each 25c Same as above trimmed with 6 rows of Insertion run ning up and down 3gc Better grades at each.... 40c, 50c, 65c and 75c. DRAWERS Made of fine grade of mus lin, double filled seams, hem stitched rufrle or rows of tucki'".' 25c S;iiiie trimmed with Lace To X . f r MI' i C . . H 1 -i . 1 . . 7"f Vt-' u-irnmcd with Lace t"'4Sfe Iimi Inscrtion or broidery at 40c and 5 I mm f I ! GOWNS Made of fine muslin, felled seams, trimmed with rows of tucking and insertion on yoke, hemstitched sleeve and neck Same trimmed with very fine grade of lace and inser tion or embroidery and inser tion at 75c and Sl.00. 50c- a v f i f ? Y ? ? ? T ?E VV-'-"- SKIRTS Made of fine mils 'in. trimmed with i' in. flounce, 3 in. 'ace, 5 rows of tuck ing on rullle, 0 inch dust ruflle under fl,,uiltt 50c. Some trim m e d with very lillt uce and embroidery at 75C 1.00,1.25,1.50. 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